Staff Backend Engineer - New Products (USA)

Kalepa • New York, NY

6d • $200,000 - $235,000

About The Position

We are looking for smart engineers who love to code, seek challenging problems, and appreciate recognition for excellent work. As part of the New Products team, you will help bring an entirely new suite of capabilities into our product. Your work will range from building quick prototypes to preparing polished feature demos that showcase what’s possible. You’ll iterate rapidly, test ideas early, and embrace a “move fast and break things” mindset to explore new opportunities. This role involves experimenting with features that can expand our total addressable market, validating assumptions, and turning promising concepts into practical, shippable solutions. You'll join a small, high-ownership group with the autonomy to drive innovation and directly influence how AI transforms an entire industry. Your contributions will have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with time spent building features from the ground up.
• Embody hustle and grit, you're excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it.
• Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
• Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop.
• Thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before.
• Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
• Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds.
• Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
• Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.

Nice To Haves

• experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems.

Benefits

• Competitive salary (based on experience level).
• Significant equity options package.
• Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $1T global industry.
• 20 days of PTO a year.
• Global team offsites.
• Gym reimbursement.
• Phone reimbursement.
• Student stipend.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees